They have been co-founded by Sebastian Schienle from Effektiv Spenden in 2023 and are still closely associated with ES. In fact, Effektiv Spenden’s Defending Democracy fund has recently switched to directly donate to P4D’s recommended charities. Though I’m not completely sure that P4D has at least 3 FTEs. Their About us page sports 15 team members of which 7 sound to me like they ought to be full time positions. The other 8 are research fellows and advisors. Sebastian Schienle will know more.
I didn’t find any way to contact the GWWC research team directly about the suggested database entry, so I put the info here in hopes that you may forward it to them. :)
Hi Luke & Sjir, I noticed that the safeguarding democracy charity evaluator “Power for Democracies” is missing from your public evaluators database. :) (Quite understandably, since their first concrete donation recommendations came out in Nov/Dec 2025)
They have been co-founded by Sebastian Schienle from Effektiv Spenden in 2023 and are still closely associated with ES. In fact, Effektiv Spenden’s Defending Democracy fund has recently switched to directly donate to P4D’s recommended charities. Though I’m not completely sure that P4D has at least 3 FTEs. Their About us page sports 15 team members of which 7 sound to me like they ought to be full time positions. The other 8 are research fellows and advisors. Sebastian Schienle will know more.
I didn’t find any way to contact the GWWC research team directly about the suggested database entry, so I put the info here in hopes that you may forward it to them. :)
Suggested database update:
Name and link: Power for Democracies
Cause areas: “Safeguarding Democracy”?
Publically available charity recommendations?: Yes
Host funds?: No? (not sure what is meant)
Estimated number of FTE involved in evaluations: <=15?? (wild guess: ~5)
Year of founding: 2023
Thanks for flagging this! I’ve added a preliminary entry for Power for Democracies and will look into the details when we next review the database :)